ST06 - Broken by design? Rewiring investment & partnership models for research and innovation.

 

The "ST06 - Broken by design? Rewiring investment & partnership models for research and innovation" is a high-level panel session at the Food and Agriculture Organization's (FAO) Science and Innovation Forum. It will focus on whether current agrifood research funding structures are failing the regions and people who need them most.
The session confronts several systemic flaws built into modern research and innovation frameworks:Short-Term Bias: Capital cycles are often tied to brief, project-based timelines. This rewards low-risk, easily fundable research over high-risk, long-term scientific exploration capable of producing true breakthroughs.
Institutional Concentration: Large grants increasingly favor merged institutions or single top-tier investigators. Critics argue this centralized funding model undercuts diverse research quality and limits localized impact.
Research Duplication & Waste: Due to funders rarely demanding rigorous baseline evidence of what knowledge already exists, systemic duplication and resource waste remain rampant.
Geographic Underinvestment: Fragile and conflict-affected states are largely left behind by current funding allocation methods, widening global inequality.

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